We help great founders with great ideas succeed

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Tomorrow Today (2M2D) is a Norwegian investment company committed to helping great founders with great ideas succeed. We want to back the bold and brave entrepreneurs who think big and move fast. 2M2D is headed by Bjarne Melbye, and is founded on the idea of being part of a new era of technology advancements that benefits mankind.

We can offer funding, experience and a kick-ass network to startups that meet our investment criteria.

Our Roots

2M2D act as an independent company, but has essentially sprung out of 110 years of company building and ownership from HCA Melbye AS that was founded in 1907. HCA Melbye has amongst others been part of building the success story of BetonmastHæhre, with a $1B+ turnover. The company also has 110-year-old roots from building traditional industries within distribution, packaging, materials, energy networks, construction and real estate. Bjarne Melbye is a co-owner of HCA Melbye and has set up 2M2D to take an active part in the change we’re seeing, the future, today.

The Team

Bjarne MelbyeFounder and CEO

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Bjarne MelbyeFounder and CEO

Bjarne is a startup enthusiast who gets inspired by clever people with great ideas and thoughts that will accelerate the world forward. His role is to support these great people in accomplishing their vision, by contributing with capital and actively helping out on the founders terms.

Bjarne has previously worked in the financial industry and with his own ventures. He’s also participated in all areas of his family business as an executive and a board member, where he’s been part of strategic planning and executing, bringing the company onwards and upwards.

“Together with my siblings we’re the 4th generation business owners. I’ve worked close with my father and he has taught me generosity, gender equality and to treat everyone with respect. And since I always try to work with people that are smarter than me, I’ve been lucky to bring with me Fredrik Winther and Lars TIngulstad as chairman and board member in 2M2D”.

Fredrik WintherChairman of the Board

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Fredrik WintherChairman of the Board

Fredrik Winther has a long term background as management consultant and researcher on business development, leadership and change, and got his Phd on management studies from NTNUs Department of Industrial Economics. He is currently Managing Director of Oslo Business Region. Over the last years he has worked closely with the growing startup ecosystem of Oslo, as well as the tech driven and rapid digitalization existing and new industries and organizations. He has also seen several hundreds of startups trying to build a position within new areas of technology, business models, and verticals, and got a passion to understand the future by examining the startups that bet into it.

Lars TingulstadMember of the Board

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Lars TingulstadMember of the Board

Lars Tingulstad have worked as the CEO of HCA Melbye AS, a family owned business, since 1996. He was one of the co-founders of Betonmast Bygg (now BetonmastHæhre) and acted as the chairman since interception until this April (2017). During that period the company grew from two employees to more than 2000 and from no revenue to this year’s budget of 10 billion NOK.
Lars is curious about what the future holds, and will be a part of 2M2D to focus on growth and opportunities for the companies we’ll partner with.

Investment strategy – Are we a match?

2M2D are looking for bold and brave entrepreneurs who think big and move fast. We can offer funding, experience and a kick-ass network to early stage companies. As part of our investment strategy we have certain criteria for considering an investment.

We want you and your company to have:

Our strategy is to invest in two steps and we can participate in multiple funding rounds. Typically we’ll enter in the seed stage or the series-A round – determined on a case by case basis. We believe our strength is in the early stages of a company timeline where we can help founders sort out their roadmap, identify obstacles and most importantly be a great speaking partner.

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A completed or close to completion of your product– meaning you’re open for business

Co-investors

2M2D is an independent company that runs by its own mandate, and is wholly owned by Bjarne Melbye. In addition, 2M2D reaches out to a network of co-investors that will decide on a case by case basis. If more investors choose to enter, 2M2D will act as the contact point for the syndicate.

These are the co-investors of today:

After 110 years in business HCA Melbye are still looking for new opportunities. Their saying is that security happens through change. Amongst others they have been part of building the success story of BetonmastHæhre, with a $1B+ turnover and more than 2000 employees. HCA Melbye will do their startup investments through 2M2D as a co-investor.

Network

StartupLab is an incubator for early stage technology startups, located in Oslo Science Park. They house 82 ambitious tech startups and help connect them with founder-friendly capital, clients, talent and advisors to help accelerate their growth. Since they were established in 2012 StartupLab has worked with 200 startups, 74% of them are still growing. StartupLab alumni companies include Zwipe, Huddly, Kahoot, ReMarkable and No Isolation.

2M2D is part of this network as an angel investor and cooperate on cases from time to time.

Nordic Impact is a company that invests in startups based around technology with a mission to have a positive impact on society. Nordic Impact was started to gather the initiatives of Tharald Nustad around impact and social entrepreneurship. The main activity is investing in early stage impact tech startups, and they also support projects that further impact investing and social entrepreneurship.

Portfolio

VIBBIO is a Norwegian tech company that specialises in smart video, utilize the latest principles regarding what triggers interest, sharing and engagement, as well as building trustworthy and strong brands. 2M2D invested in Vibbio because of the team and a great product.

Iris.AI is a company that is creating an artificial intelligence that will help understand and further research. Iris.AIs vision is to solve pressing problems by reading and understanding all of the research humans have done and connect the dots. Human brains are limited though, so Iris AI will to do it for us.

Katapult Accelerator believes in making a positive impact and in technology as the key driver for change. Katapult is founded on a deep belief in exponential technology, and that these technologies such as AI and Blockchain can help impact focused startups scale faster while solving global problems.

Shifter is an independent online newspaper about Norwegian technology companies in the new economy. We will cover small and large in the start-up industry, but also follow innovation in larger companies. There are ideas, challenges, money, power, people and good stories everywhere.

Payr is the next generation payment platform app empowering consumers to pay invoices in flexible and smart ways. Our customers can pay any invoice using bank account, debit or credit card or digital wallets, saving time and money. You can even save up bonus points on your credit card, while paying your regular invoices.

TheFactory is a leading Nordic startup accelerator and incubator based in Oslo, Norway. We help you tune and accelerate your startup over 12 intense weeks. We invest from 100.000 up to NOK 500.000 (Euro 50.000) per company, typically in exchange for 5-12% equity, negotiated case by case. The program fee equals 30% of our seed investment. We can also provide follow-on funding and incubation for the best cases.

SkyGarden is an ecommerce platform built for African businesses. Business owners that want to use the platform download the Sky.Garden Merchant App from Google Play and set up an account. All they need to provide are their personal details, unique name of their shop and other shop details such as opening hours, location and mobile money (MPesa) phone number.

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